Glove



April 12, 1938. B. KENNEDY 2,113,731

GLOVE Filed Feb. 13, 1937 Patented Apr. 12, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE 2 Claims.

This invention relates to gloves.

An object of the invention is the provision of a glove having a lace incombination with means in the body of the glove for tightening the lace,

and for retaining the said lace in position, whereby the glove isretained upon the hand of the wearer.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a glove in which thebody portion is equipped with a common opening for the ends of a laceand a pair of spaced openings, so that when the ends of the lace arepassed through the openings said ends will be crossed and in frictionalcontact with each other while the walls of the openings willfrictionally engage the ends of the lace for retaining said ends inposition when the lace has been drawn up tight for snugly retaining theglove around the wrist of the wearer.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a glove having alace encircling the wrist portion thereof with the ends of the lacepassed through openings of smaller area than the cross sectional area ofthe lace for frictionally retaining the ends of the lace in position inconnection with the pressures of the wrist against those portions of thelace which are disposed at the inside of the wrist portion.

This invention will be best understood from a consideration of thefollowing detailed description, in view of the accompanying drawingforming a part of the specification; nevertheless, it is to beunderstood that the invention is not confined to the disclosure, beingsusceptible of such changes and modifications as define no materialdeparture from the salient features of the invention as expressed in theappended claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a glove constructed according tothe principles of my invention.

glove showing the openings for the reception of the end portions of thelace.

Figure 3 is a view in perspective of the inside of the wrist portion ofthe glove showing the end portion of the lace in position.

Figure 4 is a transverse section taken along the line 44 of Figure 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, If] designates a glove whichmay be made of leather or any suitable fabric and has a hand portion IIand a wrist portion I2.

A piece of material l3 which may be of the same material, and from whichthe gloves have been manufactured, is secured at M in any ap- Figure 2is a fragmentary plan view of the proved manner, to the inner face I5 ofthe wrist portion l2. This reinforcement is substantially triangular inshape.

The outer face of the wrist portion is provided with an opening 20 whichmay be termed a common opening, for end portions 2| and 22 of a lace 23.The outer face of the wrist portion is also provided with spaced apartopenings 24 and 25.

The reinforcement I3 is likewise provided with an opening 26 which isadapted to aline with the opening 20 so that the openings 20 and 26 formsubstantially a common opening for the ends of the lace 23. Thereinforcement is also provided with an opening 21 which alines with theopening 24 in the wrist portion |2. Another opening 28 in thereinforcement which is spaced from the opening 21 alines with theopening 25 in the wrist portion |2.

The end portions 2| and 22 of the lace 23 are equipped with any suitableornament, as shown at 30, and these ornaments are of sufficient size toprevent the free ends from accidentally being displaced from theopenings in the wrist portion. It also serves as finger-pieces fordrawing the free ends of the lace in position for causing the wristportion |2 to snugly fit the wrist of the wearer.

After the glove has been placed upon the hand of the wearer and afterthe end portions 2| and 22 of the laces have been loosened or movedoutwardly from the openings 20 and 25 the lace may be drawn up tomaintain the proper pressure on the wrist without inconvenience to thewearer. This is accomplished by drawing on the fingerpieces 30 outwardlyfrom the wrist portion, and since the openings 20, 24 and 25 arerestricted as compared to the cross sectional area of the lace the endportions 2| and 22 of said lace will be frictionally held by the Wallsof the opening and prevent slippage of said free ends.

It will also be noted that the free ends 2| and 22 of the lace crosseach other at the common opening 20, and that the portions 3| and 32 ofthe lace which are located at the interior of the glove will be inengagement with the wrist of the wearer so that the end portions of thelaces are engaged in a number of points which will prevent slippage ofthe free ends.

Furthermore, if the laces have been drawn up too taut upon the wrist ofthe wearer, a movement of the wrist will tend to release these endportions sufliciently to allow free circulation.

Furthermore, the automatic locking of the end portions of the lace whenthey are drawn in position, will compensate for various thicknesses ofwrists of persons so that the wrist portion may comfortably fit thewrist without undue pressure.

I claim:

1. In a glove having a wrist portion, means for securing the glove tothe wrist of the wearer and comprising a lace circumscribing the glove,the wrist portion of the glove having a common opening, a pair of spacedopenings for the free end portions of the lace, one free end of the lacebeing threaded through the common opening and one of thepair ofopenings, the other free end of the lace being threaded through theother opening of the pair and the common opening with the ends of thelace crossing each other at the common opening, the ends of the lacewhere they exerting a binding action vent slippage, the ends of the laceextending in opposite directions to each other.

2. In a glove having a wrist portion, means for securing the glove tothe wrist of the wearer and. comprising a lace circumscribing the glove,a reinforcement secured to the inner face of the wrist portion, saidwrist portion having a common opening and a pair of spaced openingsthrough the reinforcement, one end of the lace being threaded throughthe common opening and one of the spaced openings, the other end of thelace being threaded through the other spaced opening and the commonopening with the end portions of the lace crossing each other at thecommon opening and frictionally gripped by the walls of said openings toprevent slippage of the ends of the lace, the ends of the lace wherethey cross upon each other.

BERT KENNEDY.

